A wee train outing

We were asked out to Sunday lunch. How nice that such traditions still happen. However as we are without our car, since it had its argument with the deer (see earlier blog), and being far too far to walk we decided to catch the train. This was not to be one of those terrifying intercity trains which goes past so fast that you feel you might be sucked into it. It was a sedate little inter-village train. The first one of the day arrived into Edinburgh at 12.30 crammed with excited people coming to do their Christmas shopping. We got on and had a very comfortable easy journey. We had a delightful lunch and then did the journey in reverse catching the 5.30 train back in to Edinburgh - where it immediately filled with all those same Christmas shoppers and a  million bags full of shopping. What a civilised way to travel and inexpensive. Our host advised us to produce our Edinburgh pensioner's bus-pass, so as to procure a reduction in the fare. But this no longer happens and the fare is really very reasonable. Long live the train